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Matthew
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English: New American Standard Bible |
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Matthew 20 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. |
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"When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard. |
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"And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market place; |
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and to those he said, `You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' And so they went. |
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"Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same thing. |
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"And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he *said to them, `Why have you been standing here idle all day long?' |
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"They *said to him, `Because no one hired us.' He *said to them, `You go into the vineyard too.' |
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"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, `Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.' |
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"When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius. |
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"When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius. |
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"When they received it, they grumbled at the landowner, |
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saying, `These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.' |
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"But he answered and said to one of them, `Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius? |
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`Take what is yours and go, but I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. |
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`Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?' |
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"So the last shall be first, and the first last." |
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